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Vivek Vadkar is an artist who seamlessly integrates art and design into living spaces, infusing the Realistic Art form with imaginative concepts to create a harmonious whole. With a deep-rooted passion for Realistic Art, which has existed since time immemorial, Vadkar brings ideas to life through meticulously detailed sketches. After graduating from Khopoli Chitrakala Mahavidyalaya […]
Oil painting is a traditional and versatile artistic expression that uses pigments suspended in drying oils as the medium. The ancient and adaptable oil painting medium employs pigments suspended in drying oils for creative expression. Although linseed is the most widely used drying oil, other oils, including safflower, poppy seeds, and walnuts, can also be
Smriti Malhotra If the women painted by Raja Ravi Varma had their own Instagram handles now and posed photographs of themselves with mundane objects, dressed opulently, gazing lovingly at the views, it would leave their followers awe-struck. Raja Ravi Varma set the standards of Indian beauty through his artworks, the aesthetics of Raja Ravi Varma
Smriti Malhotra A Book Review of Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India by Rupika Chawla Published by Mappin Publishing in the year 2010 Rupika Chawla is an art conservator, a profession that requires the utmost patience and dedication to work with paintings covered in soot and dust accumulated over time. It takes ages to
Krispin Joseph PX As an artist, Raja Ravi Varma has been the most celebrated in India for the last two centuries. Ravi Varma creates or fulfils the people’s imagination concerning their God and Goddess. The story of the art of Ravi Varma is a mesmerising episode of Indian art history and at the same time,
Legacy of Ravi Varma’s Paintings in Contemporary Culture Read More »
Artist Vasudevan Akkitham weighs in about disruption in the art practice, and whether contemporary art is truly creating a language of its own As a stalwart of Indian art, a celebrated artist and also a teacher of art for many years, Vasudevan Akkitham has a certain clarity of vision when it comes to concepts within
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